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@AcesHigh73 FTL: Faster Than Light would be awesome on the gamepad, i've had it since release and can always go back to it for a few games every now and then.That free expansion sized update certainly helped aswell .

I have no problem with it being story driven, I just hope there is an end game of sorts and some kind of sandbox play.

Rip Sonic & Watchdogs.

@Donutman Exactley.

Interesting, but if its coming to PS4 i know it will be a PS+ game so i'll likley go for the 3DS version to have the best of both worlds.

Edit: Unless the Wii U version has extra features or makes good use of the gamepad of course. Still, hopfully i'll have N3Ds by the time this is released.

Messege to devs, please be sandbox and not completley story driven and scripted, it totally kills replayability with turnbased games.

I'm surprised, that was actually a very nice short and sweet ad.

@Chubblings It currently has a December 2014 Release for JP, nothing for the west has been officially announced but i'd guess we get it 4-8 months later.

@Chubblings Your post sums up everything i was going to post lol, I'm so glad there are others that love the franchise the same way I do. The only Warriors games i've not cared for much are the One Piece ones which I still played though with my brother but don't actually like the IP much.

I don't think its fair to compare SW4 & Hyrule Warriors as SW4 actually incorporates all the old SW1-3 and SW Chronicles 1-2 stuff so even without the new expanded story and new characters its going to be jam packed with content. In terms of effort I like to think both have had their equal share as i'd like to enjoy both before DW8 Empires arrives in the west early next year.

@MeWario Oh thats a total different story, i imagine lots of us share the same issues with the VC .

@Grumblevolcano Really?! I never knew that as i've never run into the issue before but thats pretty stupid on their part. I hope they sort that out soon.

@MeWario I'm curious, what do u mean by the "state of the eshops" ?

Are you talking about having to make purchases on the device you intend to download to? If so this is also biggest gripe, although you can see on the Nintendo website they have set it up to be allow payments from anywhere soon.

Hyrule physical for me, lots of discounts which is nice even though i already own alot of them.

@rjejr Yeah, I don't much care for Ubi's treatment of the Wii U either. Sega however have given a bunch of support via exclusives & eshop games, they are also responsible for the Wii U getting both Bayonetta 2 & W101 by initiating talks between Platinum and Nintendo when they couldn't get funding anywhere else.

@rjejr Yeah this date was debunked on another site pretty a while ago. The retailer guesstimates dates, the most recent one to be wrong was GTA which they had pegged for October.

In anycase in the UK atleast both Watchdogs and Sonic are launching on the 21st November. Nintendo can't afford to sabotage sales from two of their largest third party supporters if they hope to have any kind third party support in the future.

Personally I don't think were seeing Smash Wii U until 5th December at the earliest.

@Peach64 It's really simple, the real goal here was to get more people to sign up to Club Nintendo and also be active on it. Almost every promotion in the last 2 years has had the exact same goal.

Always nice to have more control options.

The demo is fun but i'm really craving a full screen experience now. The game looks better than expected on my XL but after each match i'm longing for the 'real' smash experience.

I really hope the Wii U release isn't to far away from the 3DS release, i don't want to wear out the controls on my Fire Emblem 3DSXL :/ .

Got an email while out with work mates, can't wait to get home and try it out.

I love Pikmin so i hope these turn out good.

1 day before Bayonetta 2 Special edition and Samurai Warriors 4 Anime Edition? My wallets not going to like me very much that week lol.

I hope people support this, an exclusive (timed?) from a reputable dev team that know how to make great games. I really hope co-op is actually fun for both players though, unlike Child of Light where being the fairy light was pointless.

FYI dev's if your reading this I think £6.99-£9.99 would be a good price point, anything over £10 will scare people off, especially with a high profile release like Bayonetta 2 releasing the next day.

@Kaze_Memaryu @ModestFan93 @Yosher Don't let cultural ignorance blind you, you can substitute the AKB48 with any other J-pop/K-pop group name and that story would be exactly the same. Japan isn't the west, things are totally different so you can't look at events in a western frame of mind or context even if they appear similar. The whole idol system itself is a crazy mess but sales and public opinion indicate that the market thrives on it, the more crazy doggeyoopsie the better actually.

Fans of these groups are pretty much OTT by nature, this fact is also played on by said groups and their management to the fans enjoyment. Its like a massive cycle of satirical entertainment that some people take too far but essentially both the fans and groups are playing roles even if they start believing in them. Most idols are completely fabricated and pretty much pimped out by their management who tell them what to do on a day to day basis. The stars themselves earn peanuts compared to those in charge and their shelf life is even shorter than counterparts in the west. They are normally recruited from rural areas of families with little to no influence. This is important as its easier to manipulate and discredit them if need be.

The entire business is set up to milk said performers dry and if you start being to independent the business will lie about you and blacklist you so your career is pretty much over. Its like one step up from prostitution, there are hundreds of scandals if you care to research the subject further, its actually quite messed up.

AKB48 is actually more akin to a theatre troupe then a band. They have revolving members and preform stage shows in a set location daily. In anycase i like the trailer and the more smash hype the better, Smash 3DS and Wii U need to sell well for every bodies sakes.

Its worth noting that Disney Infinity 2.0 figures now cost £13-17 each, £27-30 for the 2 pack. I mainly want the Amiibo as figures but now i'm wondering how long they will be useful on the gaming side. Skylanders figures are useless when the next one comes out since they are essentially physical dlc keys while most Disney Infinity figures only work in the toy box.

@Frapp I'm glad we could partially see each others points of view and discuss them intelligently. I hope Nintendo Life run an article on the subject soon so we get some different points of view on the subject and debate some more.

@Frapp Sorry that was a rant and maybe not 100% clear, I was mainly talking about the people that expect all indies to be a certain price regardless of quality or content. I was not saying everyone should buy every game at full price. Whenever a retail game is announced no one says anything about its price, value or anything. The only time people will say i'll buy it in a sale is if said company has insulted Nintendo or cut a feature from the Wii U version.

However everytime a indie or eshop games price is announced you get a host of people saying stuff like "looks great but i'll get it in a sale" or " I never spend that much on indies" or my favourite "They will get more sales with a lower price". This isn't exclusive to this site either. On PC, most veteran PC gamers are preconditioned with the "I'll wait for Steam sale or humble bundle" response. Ironicly its this attitude that has pushed the re-emergent indie scene onto consoles in the first place. I also see the same on PSNblog, whenever a game is announced its " No crossplay/crossbuy no sale" or "I'll wait for it to come to PSN+" or "Its cheaper on X console/PC so no buy (even though i don't own said console/PC).

This isn't simply "I don't have the money for said purchase", its purposely devaluing the product and the efforts of those who created it implying that its not worth much. Games are luxury items not a public service, you don't like you don't buy, simple. However if you do like and you don't buy or you buy in a way that the creators are not seeing a return of investment then your crippling the suppliers and the potential of future games from said supplier.

Its a much wider issues but it still bugs me when i see people reinforcing these negative views of indie/downloadable games.

TL:DR - Indie/digital game does not automatically equal cheap price or sale material. Indies should be valued on there own merits not compared to other Indies prices. PS I love sales too .

While I have no interest in the game itself at the moment it irks me to see people complaining about the price and comparing it to other platforms. People complain about the lack of games or dead franchises but yet are not willing to feed the industry.

Didn't we just have a story about a dev closing down due to not having enough profits to continue despite having a decent amount of sales? How many times have we heard the same story?

Outside of the big AAA studio's how many studios stay in business long enough to get more than 3 or 4 games out before closing down or being boughtout?

Then we have a million threads on forums crying for sequels, remakes and such for games people were too cheap to support when they had the chance.

/rant

"How do you feel about Xenoblade Chronicles being a New 3DS exclusive?"

Xenoblade cannot run on the 3DS without the extra power of the new hardware, the phrasing of the question doesn't reinforce this fact. A 3DS is not a portable Wii, its a clear and cut downgrade in terms of hardware. It remains to be seen how substantial this increased hardware of the new 3ds is but its likely Xenoblade will still be a downgrade.

@triforcepower73 Its a legit topic that's been discussed quite abit actually so know one should get mad at you.

Nintendo have seen that the Wii U is unlikely to have any single games software sales above a few million, having Smash on the much more established and popular 3DS will bring in more than triple the revenue, keep existing 3DS owners happy and also persuade people to pick up the new 3DS.

People who want the big tv experience are still going to get the Wii U version while those without Wii U's or new to the series can pick up the 3DS copy instead. Diehard fans are going to pick up both copies regardless which means more copies sold for Nintendo.

IMO this is the best course of action, especially in light of the disappointing amount of Wii U's MK8 shifted despite its critical and commercial success.

Getting both, 3DS for the commute to work and lunch breaks, Wii U for 4 player HD mayhem with my Bro,GF and friends.

Any news on the EU release date?

@unrandomsam Welcome to the video game industry, the percentage of games released on time is dwarfed by those that miss release dates for whatever reason.

Companies don't (usually) lie about release dates, it doesn't benefit them at all, in fact it normally harms them. This is why most companies don't like to give exact release dates.

The only time they blatantly lie is near console launches, a good recent example is the build up before and after the X1 & PS4 releases. Alot of game dev's gave or implied release dates within launch period knowing that was not even possible.

Well the release dates tell me this DLC was started after the game was shipped so atleast the anti-dlc squad will be appeased. Who am i kidding they will complain anyway.

FYI almost all of Namco Bandai's fighters hit arcades first, we normally see console ports 6 months to a year later. Their most popular "fighter" at the moment is the latest in the "Gundam Extreme VS" series, i think it took around 6+ months for the last one to come to PS3 but the newest version has been out for a while now and no port has been announced afaik.

Since Wii U is the only console this could actually come to, i'm sure its already in development but Namco want to farm the arcade scene exclusively first to help build a user base before dropping a Wii U version.

Edit: Also Gundam Vs has a data share thing for console and arcade (I'm sure other games do also), I imagine it would be feasible to implement Amiibo to transfer data between arcade and Wii U.

Unless X1 gets some amazing exclusives I'll likely be skipping it this gen on principle alone. The crap they tried to pull before their massive 180 was too much for me. Every time I consider buying one I think of how this gen would be if Sony had followed their lead and I shudder.

I have a PC, Wii U, 360, PS3, PS4 & 3DS and more games than my current lifestyle actually allows for lol.

I didn't know i wanted this until I saw it just now..., I demand all future 3DS games henceforth have this feature implemented!!!

@Sir_JBizzle Yes but that success will affect Wii U software and hardware sales so flat out ignoring it is just plan silly.

Why do people keep forgetting Smash is also on 3DS? The Wii U version will do maybe 3mil in its first year worldwide while the 3DS version will do maybe double.

@Grumblevolcano No local multi-player, one of the major things synonymous with Nintendo consoles and they decided to cut it out.

@SavoirFaire All that information was out by release day, gamefaqs, gameexplain & Hyrulewarriors Wikia will have all the information you want. I'd recommend you wait until release and experience it yourself, i accidently stumbled across more than a few things i think i would have preferred to discover myself.

@gage_wolf @gatorboi352 Fun fact: Zombi U wasn't a Wii U title to begin with, it was a last gen game that was in development hell and was converted several times before it ended up as Zombi U. That's why it looks like crap and has janky controls and a half arsed multi-player mode, the premise and concept was awesome but Ubisoft didn't really try to push the boat with it at all.

The only game Ubisoft actually crafted for the Wii U with any real dedication was Rayman, every other game has been feature incomplete (Splintercell etc) or plan rubbish (rabbids etc).

@BigH88 @argol228 Actually most mainline Dynasty Warriors since the 2nd one (Which is the 1st game with the warriors formula, 1st one was a vs game) have challenge mode, which is are normally 5 or so mini games/challenges that can be completed solo or competitively.

In terms of fully featured versus modes only Warriors Orichi 3 Hyper & Ultimate have had both a duel mode (With ability cards to add variation to the combat), and also allowed you and and a second player to be on opposing sides in free battles.

That said Warriors games are made for solo and co-op player, competitive modes are nice to mix it up but no one buys them for that purpose.

Personally I hope its a officer/boss rush mode like Dynasty Warriors 8XLC, the mode is amazingly good fun especially in co-op.

Edit: Totally forgot FOTNS2 also has 8 player competitive & co-op modes on Wii U.

Couldn't care less about the Pinball tables but i loved Castlestorm (+DLC) on Wii U, multi-player in particular.

Here we go again...

Until we have sales figures and production costs any speculation is moot. Available evidence points to VC not being that profitable outside certain titles. I'm not convinced price is the issue.

@Yasume Did you really just compare 3 of the biggest Manga's (+Animes) Musou games to a Zelda Musou game? I'm not sure how much you know about Japan or those IPs but they have massive followings. (no offensive implied)
Everyone in Japan knows those franchises, Zelda doesn't even come close. Not to mention the fact that Playstation is the known home of the Mosou games or the fact that Japan got several hotly anticipated Mosou games this year and have more incoming before 2015.

There are just too many factors that don't match up to do a comparison that holds any weight. It really is an apples to oranges comparison.

Awesome was waiting for this ever since the JP release.

Awesome game, if you haven't played it already £7 is a steal for this treat.

@nik1470 That's terrible I didn't realise that had happened. What the hell is wrong with people?! smh.

@datamonkey VGChartz isn't the best source for info but the Wii U is currently in second place according to Nintendo and MS. Only problem for Nintendo being that MS is selling more per month in the US which is a massive market.

Really don't like the red, otherwise i'd likley pick up another XL.

FYI to those complains about the AC adapter, you can get a USB charger for 50p on Amazon that works wonders. My cat bit through my original charger and i've been using a usb charger for about a year now.

Shame Nintendo does'nt just include one of those since they are cheaper to produce and would fit in the tiny 3DSXL box.